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El País

Although only 0.3% increases the number of households in which there are mobile, this year has reinvigorated the number of children who have one. 67 of every 100 children 10 to 15 are mobile in Spain, 3.5% more than in 2014. The percentage is much higher among children 14 to 15 years: nine out of ten of them has at least one of these phones.

an upward trend that began two years ago, but has not again reached 68.4% -the highest historical 2009. The data come from the Survey This consolidates equipment and use of information and communication technologies in households today published the National Statistics Institute (INE).

The autonomous communities with the highest percentage of children with mobile are the Basque Country (79, 6%), Asturias (76.2%), Castilla y León (73.4%) and Castilla-La Mancha (72.2%). Against them, the communities with the lowest percentage are Cantabria (52.5%), Ceuta (56.6%), Navarra (61.1%) and Catalonia (61.8%).

Rise purchase on line and broadband

The 2015 consolidated in Spain using the Internet for shopping. 32.1% of Spaniards have turned to e-commerce in the last three months. Men are more likely to buy in this way than women (34% men vs. 30% women) and age, people 25 to 44 years who most often turn to these services.

The survey also revealed that those who had landline in 2014 has not so low this year, but 21 out of 100 households and dispense with it and only using mobile at home.

In Spain, 13.6 million households (78.7% versus 74.4% last year) have Internet access, compared to 3.3 does not. The broadband access (ADSL, cable) have experienced a notable increase in just one year: more than 830,000 homes have him in 2015, but mobile devices are already the most widely used means to connect to the Internet in Spain: 77% housing one connected to the Internet.

However, it is still slowing the growth of households with a computer, which has barely grown since 2012. 3,385,000 of families still do not have Internet access. The main reason is that we have access from elsewhere (67%), high costs of equipment or connection (56%) or do not consider it necessary (40%). The only concern for privacy is an important 11% of these respondents reason.